ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,662, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Hierarchical object tagging framework" was invented by Artin Avanes (Palo Alto, Calif.), Khalid Zaman Bijon (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Yujie Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zheng Mi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.) and David Schultz (Piedmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of implementing object tagging framework starts with the processor receiving a tag creation command including a tag name. In response to the tag creation command, the processor creates a current tag. The processor then receives an association command, the...